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ilO POST-OFFICE DIRECTORY.
plied with ; and if he find any Letter, whether sealed or open, or
sealed enclosure of any kind, such Letter or enclosure is to be
taken out and dealt with as an Unpaid Letter — the Address on the
Packet being written thereon if there be no other Address. And
if in any other respect either of the above conditions be violated,
or if for any reason the Postmaster does not think that the Packet
comes within the privilege of the Book Post, he must forward it
to the Principal Office, there to be dealt with.
To prevent obstacles to the regular transmission of Letters, any
Officer of the Post-Office may, when necessary, delay forwarding a
Book-Packet for a period not exceeding twenty-four hours beyond
the time at which it would otherwise be forwarded.
Newspapers, and Supplements to Newspapers.
It is not compulsory to send Newspapers or their Supplements
by Post ; but those that are intended to be so transmitted must be
sent in covers open at the sides ; and no words of communication
may be printed or written on such papers (except under the condi-
tions hereafter explained) after the same shall have been published,
when they are entitled to pass free.
Parties will be allowed, however, to put any Writing or Marks
on Newspapers passing by Post, in the United Kingdom, provided
that a Postage of a Penny be prepaid, hy means of a Stamp con-
spicuously affixed outside the Cover or folded Newspaper, it being
understood that in those cases where the Newspaper may be liable
to Postage, irrespective of such Writing or Marks (as when it is
both posted and delivered in the same town), the Penny Stamp
shall cover both the Writing and Postage. But this privilege is
to be confined to Writing or Marks on the Newspaper itself, and
not to extend to the Cover, which must contain nothing but the
address.
Any Writing or Marks on the Cover, besides the address, or on
the Newspaper (if not prepaid as above), will subject it to the same
rate as that of an Unpaid Letter, according to weight.
Newspapers pass free by the Edinburgh Local Posts, except in
those cases where they shall be posted and delivered within the
limits of the General Post delivery (which now includes Leith),
when the Postage is one penny on each Newspaper.
Prices Current and Commercial Lists published in the United
Kingdom, if duly stamped, and under the weight of two ounces,
will be treated as Newspapers, and enjoy the Newspaper privileges,
the sanction of the Postmaster-General having been previously
obtained.
I . %* As the mere affixing a Newspaper Stamp on any new peri-
odical publication will not entitle it, as a matter of course, to pass
free by the Post, those who may be about to publish, for the first
time, any such paper, should submit a copy to the Postmaster-
General, in order that it may be determined whether the Publica-
tion is of a nature that will entitle it to pass free of postage.
Clause of the Act of \st Victoria, cap. 34, sec. 32. — "And be it
" further enacted, that in all cases, in which a question shall arise,
** whether a printed Paper is entitled to the privileges of a News-